seamcintyre
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Hey all,
I have a 250g Marineland DD tank 60"x36" It has been up for almost a year now (literally 1 year in 6 days)
I have an efflo and a shortcake acro that I purchased from a local reefer. They are acting odd. I placed them both in the tank roughly three months ago. They have grown quite a bit, and encrusted on the rock quite well.
They both were really brown when I got them, now they are what I am assuming are coloring up? My main concern is that they are not doing well. Perhaps the shortcake is maybe bleaching? It has a lot of new growth but they seem to be void of color, even though it has good polyp extension. The efflo on the other hand seems to be pretty brown. I can see some polyps but they are very little.
I have an ATI Powermodule with 8 bulbs (4 coral plus and 4 blue plus) and 3 LED clusters (only at 30% royal blue leds only) on a 10 hour photoperiod.
CAL: 450
ALK: 8-8.3
MAG: 1400
PH: 8-8.1
P04: 0?
N03: 0?
I'm sure the phosphate and nitrate are not literally zero however the tests seem to think that.
I have a probe for PH and Temp and use salifert for everything else. I dose 2 part BRS about 132ml daily via dosing pumps. I have minimal algae growth on the glass and a couple SMALL patches of cyanobacteria. I normally wipe the glass off twice a week and clean the cyano when I do water changes. Which are weekly about 20 gallons with IO and RO/DI. I also siphon my sand when I do a water change, there is roughly a 1" sand bed that is purely for ascetics.
I run filter socks which I change every three days and an eshopps s200 cone skimmer. For flow I have three MP40s and an Iwaki 40rlxt.
I only have nine reasonably sized fish which I feed three times daily, LRS frozen food and NLS pellets. Sometimes I give nori as well.
Here is a picture, sorry for quality it is from my phone.
So do they look alright to you? Do they need more time? Any suggestions or comments would be helpful thanks.
I have a 250g Marineland DD tank 60"x36" It has been up for almost a year now (literally 1 year in 6 days)
I have an efflo and a shortcake acro that I purchased from a local reefer. They are acting odd. I placed them both in the tank roughly three months ago. They have grown quite a bit, and encrusted on the rock quite well.
They both were really brown when I got them, now they are what I am assuming are coloring up? My main concern is that they are not doing well. Perhaps the shortcake is maybe bleaching? It has a lot of new growth but they seem to be void of color, even though it has good polyp extension. The efflo on the other hand seems to be pretty brown. I can see some polyps but they are very little.
I have an ATI Powermodule with 8 bulbs (4 coral plus and 4 blue plus) and 3 LED clusters (only at 30% royal blue leds only) on a 10 hour photoperiod.
CAL: 450
ALK: 8-8.3
MAG: 1400
PH: 8-8.1
P04: 0?
N03: 0?
I'm sure the phosphate and nitrate are not literally zero however the tests seem to think that.
I have a probe for PH and Temp and use salifert for everything else. I dose 2 part BRS about 132ml daily via dosing pumps. I have minimal algae growth on the glass and a couple SMALL patches of cyanobacteria. I normally wipe the glass off twice a week and clean the cyano when I do water changes. Which are weekly about 20 gallons with IO and RO/DI. I also siphon my sand when I do a water change, there is roughly a 1" sand bed that is purely for ascetics.
I run filter socks which I change every three days and an eshopps s200 cone skimmer. For flow I have three MP40s and an Iwaki 40rlxt.
I only have nine reasonably sized fish which I feed three times daily, LRS frozen food and NLS pellets. Sometimes I give nori as well.
Here is a picture, sorry for quality it is from my phone.
So do they look alright to you? Do they need more time? Any suggestions or comments would be helpful thanks.
